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RSS Changes 2

I have been messing with my RSS feeds tonight.

I have added some of my favorite local blogs, to join other favorite local blogs that were already there.

I have, with sadness, removed a blog that for a long time was one of my favorites, but has become rather weird in the last couple of months. With sadness, because that blogger has taught me a lot through example and has long been a favorite read. Nevertheless, that blog has lately lost any grounding in reality or in fact-based discourse.

(Yeah, I know. Most of what I deal in is opinions. Opinions, though, must bear some at least tenuous relationship with facts–unlike Bushie policies, which are in a whole nother world–but I digress. Otherwise, there is no fun in sarcasm and name-calling. I can, however, tolerate only a limited amount of complete and total detachment from the real world before I have to say, “Enough.”)

If you want “unbiased” comment–meaning comment that balances one opinion with another opinion, as if there were no truth, as if there were only competing opinions and no facts, go somewhere else.

If you want striving towards truth (he said self-importantly), stay here, follow the RSS feeds, and read the blogroll.

Here, you will find fact-based bias.

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2 comments

  1. Opie

    May 10, 2008 at 6:08 pm

    "Nevertheless, that blog has lately lost any grounding in reality or in fact-based discourse."

    The fact that my blog is still listed shows that you’re better off never having had those qualities in the first place.

     
  2. Frank

    May 11, 2008 at 11:32 am

    Balls.

    You and I just blog in different places.

    Bluntly, the reason I dropped that one from my RSS feed it that is has become just plain nasty as regards certainly political issues.  Not outraged, not vehement, not intense, not sarcastic, not one-sided.  

    None of those I mind, when you’re getting what has been advertised–hell, me do that thing.  

    But I don’t have the time for nasty and I’m not going to advertise nasty.

    And, Opie, I’m sorry to say, I don’t think you could pull off nasty, not over a prolonged period of time.

    Sarcastic, that may be another th–oh, never mind.

     
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